Towards Sustainable, Climate-Neutral Farming Systems (AgZero+)
Lead Research Organisation:
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Department Name: Biodiversity (Wallingford)
Abstract
Agriculture is a major cause of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, pollution and biodiversity loss globally and in the UK. Achieving sustainable ('green') growth of agricultural production to feed 10 billion people by 2050 whilst reducing environmental impacts is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. Changing our diets and reducing food waste are part of the solution. However, as recognised in the UK government's Clean Growth Grand Challenge, significant green growth in the agri-food sector is also necessary to meet this demand without compromising other targets, in particular that of neutrality in carbon emissions by 2050. The GREEN AG programme will build a long-term, strategic research and innovation infrastructure to develop new UK farming systems which will produce sufficient food whilst reducing emissions and pollution, protecting biodiversity, and enhancing soil health. We call this 'net zero+' as it will balance net zero emissions aims with wider environmental concerns. These solutions will be required at scale if the UK is to meet emission reduction targets, and avoid the unintended consequences of emissions being offshored by increased food imports, or causing damage to valuable ecosystems in the UK.
GREEN AG will engage and unite the science community with industry, policy, farmer and NGO stakeholders. We will identify farm management practices with potential to reduce emissions and/or capture carbon without major impacts on food production or other environmental outcomes. We will undertake detailed, integrated measurements of these practices on both experiments and on a network of instrumented study farms (Living Farm Labs). We will use models to define pathways to achieving net zero+ arable and livestock farm systems that minimise trade-offs with production and the environment. Finally, we will use cutting edge data science to provide data, models and tools to enable the transition to net zero+ agriculture.
Achieving the ambition of clean, green and net-zero agriculture will require strategic, cross-disciplinary and long-term research - a so-called national capability. This will bring together directed teams from NERC and BBSRC centres - UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Rothamsted Research, National Centre for Earth Observation, British Geological Survey and Plymouth Marine Laboratory. This partnership will bring together complementary expertise in ground and earth observation, sensor networks, measurement of GHG emissions from soils, groundwater and estuaries, pollution, biodiversity, crop and livestock production, data science and modelling from field to national scales, covering terrestrial, freshwater and coastal zones. Our environmental research will complement work on other aspects of the farming system that might support net zero+, including crop breeding, animal husbandry and diet, soil science, and crop nutrition and protection.
The GREEN AG national capability will provide the following outcomes for the UK science community and other stakeholders:
- New knowledge underpinning effective agri-environmental policies to achieve net zero emissions by 2050;
- New funding opportunities levered from the GREEN AG research and innovation infrastructure which comprise a national digital farmland observatory, instrumented study farms, experiments, data and models;
- More effective implementation of net zero+ polices and practice through stakeholder engagement and co-design, and through the provision of new decision support tools;
- Opportunities for UK researchers and agri-businesses to export this green growth knowledge, technology and innovations to overseas markets.
GREEN AG will engage and unite the science community with industry, policy, farmer and NGO stakeholders. We will identify farm management practices with potential to reduce emissions and/or capture carbon without major impacts on food production or other environmental outcomes. We will undertake detailed, integrated measurements of these practices on both experiments and on a network of instrumented study farms (Living Farm Labs). We will use models to define pathways to achieving net zero+ arable and livestock farm systems that minimise trade-offs with production and the environment. Finally, we will use cutting edge data science to provide data, models and tools to enable the transition to net zero+ agriculture.
Achieving the ambition of clean, green and net-zero agriculture will require strategic, cross-disciplinary and long-term research - a so-called national capability. This will bring together directed teams from NERC and BBSRC centres - UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Rothamsted Research, National Centre for Earth Observation, British Geological Survey and Plymouth Marine Laboratory. This partnership will bring together complementary expertise in ground and earth observation, sensor networks, measurement of GHG emissions from soils, groundwater and estuaries, pollution, biodiversity, crop and livestock production, data science and modelling from field to national scales, covering terrestrial, freshwater and coastal zones. Our environmental research will complement work on other aspects of the farming system that might support net zero+, including crop breeding, animal husbandry and diet, soil science, and crop nutrition and protection.
The GREEN AG national capability will provide the following outcomes for the UK science community and other stakeholders:
- New knowledge underpinning effective agri-environmental policies to achieve net zero emissions by 2050;
- New funding opportunities levered from the GREEN AG research and innovation infrastructure which comprise a national digital farmland observatory, instrumented study farms, experiments, data and models;
- More effective implementation of net zero+ polices and practice through stakeholder engagement and co-design, and through the provision of new decision support tools;
- Opportunities for UK researchers and agri-businesses to export this green growth knowledge, technology and innovations to overseas markets.
Organisations
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Lead Research Organisation)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES (Collaboration)
- INRA (UMR-MISTEA) Montpellier, France (Collaboration)
- French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) (Collaboration)
- University of Reggio Calabria (Collaboration)
- KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Universidade de São Paulo (Collaboration)
- Westcountry Rivers Trust (Collaboration)
- National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS) (Collaboration)
- Farm and Wildlife Advisory Group South West (Collaboration)
- Linking Environment And Farming (Collaboration)
- National Trust (Project Partner)
- Dept for Env Food & Rural Affairs DEFRA (Project Partner)
- James Hutton Institute (Project Partner)
- Strutt and Parker (Project Partner)
- Natural England (Project Partner)
- Soil Association (Project Partner)
- Linking Env and Farming LEAF (Project Partner)
- BASF plc (Project Partner)
- Agrii (Mastock Arable (UK) Ltd.) (Project Partner)
- GEOGLAM (Project Partner)
- AHDB (Agri & Horticulture Dev Board) (Project Partner)
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee (Project Partner)
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Project Partner)
Publications
Akpensuen TT
(2025)
Make African grasslands climate-change resilient.
in Communications earth & environment
Bagstad K
(2025)
Interoperability for ecosystem service assessments: Why, how, who, and for whom?
in Ecosystem Services
Berra E
(2024)
Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data with Google Earth Engine
in Remote Sensing
Bick E
(2024)
Dynamics of pollen beetle (Brassicogethes aeneus) immigration and colonization of oilseed rape (Brassica napus) in Europe.
in Pest management science
Boinot S
(2024)
Landscape perspectives for agroecological weed management. A review
in Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Bullock J
(2024)
Mapping the ratio of agricultural inputs to yields reveals areas with potentially less sustainable farming
in Science of The Total Environment
Castillo J
(2023)
Measured and modeled nitrogen balances in lowland rice-pasture rotations in temperate South America
in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Cole B
(2023)
Using a multi-lens framework for landscape decisions
in People and Nature
Conti L
(2023)
Functional trait trade-offs define plant population stability across different biomes.
in Proceedings. Biological sciences
| Title | A practical guide to sustainable farming' video series |
| Description | Eight part video series hosted by Marek Nowakowski offering solutions and guidance to overcome barriers to sustainable farming. Each video has between 200-350 views. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | No discernable impact |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt1eR7pp64w&list=PLxBmLvubPKVVTp4HbP9DgpuQrKSzG9Fbl |
| Description | The AgZero+ Towards sustainable, climate-neutral farming systems research programme (2022-27) is approaching its mid-point and has already developed significant new knowledge, improved research capabilities and research networks, specifically: 1. Creation of new national data sets describing the productivity and environmental footprint of UK agriculture, including: i) 10 years of national crop maps; ii) real time national models of crop yield assimilating earth observation data and validated using a network of farms providing precision yield data; iii) maps of pesticide and fertiliser application; iv) a new soil map for the UK; v) a map of soil health - estimating soil carbon stocks and the likelihood of drought and flooding; vi) a network of 50+ flux towers providing continuous monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, and vii) biodiversity associated with farmland; 2. Interviews and surveys of farmers to understand the social and economic motivations and barriers for adopting sustainable, net zero farming practices; 3. A network of 30+ commercial study farms presenting arable and livestock sectors where we are undertaking detailed measurements of business as usual and innovative farming practices to achieve net zero; 4. Detailed mechanistic experiments using the latest robotic sensors to measure the effectiveness of new innovations to abate agricultural emissions, including biochar and rock dust; 5. A free Farm Health Checkâ„¢ that provides farmers with a comprehensive natural capital baseline, an assessment of the impacts of their operations and opportunities to mitigate these impacts and enhance their natural capital; 6. Synthesis and integration of this new knowledge into new nature positive and net zero pathways for UK agriculture; and 7. Co-development with the farming industry of new decision support tools to help farmers balance food production, emission abatement and nature recovery, together with AI-driven tools to support farmer-led monitoring of the outcomes of these new farming systems. |
| Exploitation Route | We envision key stakeholders will take the outcomes of the programme forward as follows: 1. Farming industry - will benefit from the free Farm Health Check and decision support tools to better manage the trade-offs between food production, emission and nature recovery at the farm business level; 2. Food supply chain - will utilise the detailed measurements from the farm network to better quantity its carbon footprint and sustainability of food production; 3. Policy makers - will utilise the new data on innovate farm practices to inform and improve agri-environment policies to reverse biodiversity loss and reduce agricultural emissions; 4. Academia - will utilise the national data sets generated by the programme to set their detailed, site specific studies in context. They will also build on the new knowledge generated by the study farm network and mechanistic experiments to develop new technologies and leverage additional research funding. |
| Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Environment |
| URL | https://agzeroplus.org.uk/ |
| Description | The overall impacts of the AgZero+ programme at the mid-point can be summarised as follows: Policy impacts: AgZero+ is quantifying the effectiveness of a wide range of innovative farming practices designed to reduce emissions and produce food more sustainably. These data will underpin and inform the government's Net Zero Growth Plan and Carbon Budget Delivery Plan that set out how to decarbonise agriculture by 2050. Moreover, the synthesis of programme data on net zero and nature positive pathways will provide new knowledge and insights into the recently announced Defra Land Use Strategy consultation. Finally, detailed experimentation on peatland rewetting and the impacts of this on food production, emission abatement and nature will inform current policies addressing this challenging topic, including the Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme. Economic impacts: AgZero+ outputs already provide important economic benefits to farmers, the farming industry and food supply chain. The Farm Health Checkâ„¢ is freely available to participating farmers and provides them with a detailed natural capital baseline together with estimates of their soil carbon stock and Biodiversity Net Gain potential (both of which can be monetised for the farm business). The ePlanner (https://e-planner.ceh.ac.uk/) is a freely available digital tool that provides every farm in GB detailed information the best location to plant woodland, protect water resources, provide natural flood management and create habitat for insects and farmland birds. The tool supports farm businesses by providing a look-up table and links to the appropriate grants and payment rates for each habitat under the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme. AgZero+ also provides free hydro-met services for the farming industry via a mobile app. Our 50m scale relative estimates of soil moisture informs farm decision making (e.g. when a soil is dry enough to travel). Finally, the National Honey Monitoring Scheme (https://honey-monitoring.ac.uk/) is supporting over 800 beekeepers in the UK by providing information on the floral content of their honey which adds significant retail value to their honey. Societal impacts: AgZero+ has released a free mobile phone app (e-surveyor - https://www.ceh.ac.uk/e-surveyor) that uses AI-image recognition to identify plant species, habitats, moths and soil health. We have run numerous courses to train and support farmers and citizen scientists in the use this app to monitor the outcomes of net zero, nature positive management actions. We anticipate that this farmer- and citizen-led monitoring will improve environmental outcomes and connect people more to nature in their local area with associated benefits to health and wellbeing. The AgZero+ team has undertaken more than 160 stakeholder engagement activities to date, including external events, meetings with industry partners, online and printed articles and blogposts. This training and knowledge transfer will significantly increase the environmental skill base and competency of UK agriculture, making this sector more competitive, sustainable and resilient. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2023 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy |
| Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | Attended Sense about Science event at Parliament presenting my work on AI automatic detection of flying insects 4/7/23 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Diverse Swards open day |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Impossible to evidence as yet - and likely to be a gradual process of change. |
| URL | https://www.innovativefarmers.org/events/managing-diverse-swards-and-herbal-leys/ |
| Description | Incorporating recreation into ELMs (via DEFRA SSEG) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | 3012 - Developing the National Honey Monitoring Scheme as a framework for pesticide monitoring in support of the H4 indicators - 2021 honey samples |
| Amount | £45,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 3012 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Assessment of neonicotinoid residues in NHMS honey samples from 2021 & 2022 |
| Amount | £48,989 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RDE336 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Evaluating the potential of high resolution satellite imagery for mapping natural capital |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | tNCEA CN103/104 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 04/2027 |
| Description | H4 indicator for pesticide exposure to honeybees |
| Amount | £104,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RDE650 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | H4 residue analysis sample lab change trial |
| Amount | £17,368 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RDE719 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | NEC08518 - NHMS- Defra H4 indicator 2021 samples Phase 2 |
| Amount | £49,981 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NEC08518 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Pesticides in honey - analysis of urban honey samples and archive validation |
| Amount | £49,458 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | Pesticides in honey - analysis of urban honey samples and archive validation |
| Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RDE396 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Pesticides in honey - development of future work program |
| Amount | £33,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RDE338 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Pesticides in honey - development of future work programme |
| Amount | £33,055 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | Pesticides in honey - residue analysis on NHMS honey samples collected in 2022 |
| Amount | £49,873 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RDE347 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Pesticides in honey - residue analysis on NHMS honey samples collected in 2022 |
| Amount | £49,873 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | Pushing the Frontiers |
| Amount | £812,867 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/X014150/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Description | RDE063 - NEC08462 - Defra NHMS Neonics 2022 |
| Amount | £48,989 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RDE063 - NEC08462 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Resilient Farming Futures: Detecting agroecosystem 'resilience' using novel data science methods |
| Amount | £352,317 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BBS/E/RH/230004B |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 03/2028 |
| Description | Soils Structure Monitoring App |
| Amount | £39,763 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | tNCEA CN113 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2024 |
| End | 05/2025 |
| Description | Using artificial intelligence for automated habitat assessment (AI-Hab) |
| Amount | £500,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | UKRI054 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2024 |
| End | 09/2027 |
| Description | e-Surveyor habitat development - Project 09489 |
| Amount | £9,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Project 09489 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Title | Code to calculated recreation use |
| Description | Our prediction of recreation demand is expressed as the total number of projected visits for local recreation in target cells. Calculations were performed using Matlab v7.14.0.739; codes can be found at https://github.com/dhooftman72/RecreationalValue |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None so far. |
| URL | https://github.com/dhooftman72/RecreationalValue |
| Title | Collated neutron probe measurements and derived soil moisture data, UK, 1966-2013 |
| Description | The dataset of neutron probe soil moisture observations for 112 sites (428 probe locations) from 1966 to 2013 includes 4 comma-separated tables, derived from the UK Soil Moisture Databank. The data include: • Neutron probe readings (number of neutrons) and Volumetric soil moisture content (m3 m-3) at a range of soil depths • Profile moisture content (m3 m-3) to a range of soil depths • Metadata (includes probe location, maximum depth of readings, soil type, vegetation, start date, end date) • Relevant publications (references and URL where available) for individual datasets The tube site locations are provided as British National Grid references and latitude/longitude in the tube metadata file. Depths of tube readings are provided in metres. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This data set enabled the developments of a soil wetness explorer app providing near real-time data on soil moisture at the 50m resolution. https://agzeroplus.org.uk/soil-moisture-app |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/450bb14b-c711-47af-8792-f9bd88482cd4 |
| Title | Data from: Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta-analysis |
| Description | Agricultural intensification increases food production but also drives widespread biodiversity decline. Increasing landscape heterogeneity has been suggested to increase biodiversity across habitats, while increasing crop heterogeneity may support biodiversity within agroecosystems. These spatial heterogeneity effects can be partitioned into compositional (land-cover type diversity) and configurational heterogeneity (land-cover type arrangement), measured either for the crop mosaic or across the landscape for both crops and semi-natural habitats. However, studies have reported mixed responses of biodiversity to increases in these heterogeneity components across taxa and contexts. Our meta-analysis covering 6,397 fields across 122 studies conducted in Asia, Europe, and North and South America reveals consistently positive effects of crop and landscape heterogeneity, as well as compositional and configurational heterogeneity for plant, invertebrate, vertebrate, pollinator, and predator biodiversity. Vertebrates and plants benefit more from landscape heterogeneity, while invertebrates derive similar benefits from both crop and landscape heterogeneity. Pollinators benefit more from configurational heterogeneity, but predators favour compositional heterogeneity. These positive effects are consistent for invertebrates and vertebrates in both tropical/subtropical and temperate agroecosystems, and in annual and perennial cropping systems, and at small to large spatial scales. Our results suggest that promoting increased landscape heterogeneity by diversifying crops and semi-natural habitats, as suggested in the current UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, is key for restoring biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.dbrv15f7j |
| Title | Input to Yield Ratio (IYR) maps for wheat farming in England, 2010-2017 |
| Description | These maps show the Input to Yield Ratio (IYR) of wheat farming in England, calculated as the ratio of agrochemical inputs to agricultural reward as yield. We assess the IYR at a 1km resolution for wheat grown in England over the period the period 2010-2017, considering the different agrochemicals used and their differing forms of environmental impact. We provide four mapped products: IYR for Nitrogen fertilisers, IYR for Phosphorus fertilisers, IYR for pesticide risk to earthworms, and IYR for pesticide risk to honeybees. The IYR is calculated using scaled rather than absolute values, with the maximum value in each yield and inputs dataset set as 1, so that all inputs and rewards are expressed proportionally to each other. The research was funded under research programme NE/N018125/1 ASSIST and NE/W005050/1 AgZero+. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset enabled the publication of a peer-reviewed paper published in Science of the Total Environment using this dataset. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880921002863 |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/dfe2a4a5-2b3a-4731-ba7f-aea7e926f1dd |
| Title | Soil Wetness explorer updated to daily time steps |
| Description | This app shows the "wetness" of the soil (soil moisture storage) across Britain as estimated by a hydrological model. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | NA |
| URL | https://soilwetness.ceh.ac.uk/home |
| Title | The Rothamsted Carbon Model: RothC |
| Description | The Rothamsted carbon model simulated SOC dynamics in top soils and is recommended by the FAO for use |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The model code is now freely available to the community |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/10707407 |
| Title | UKCEH Land Cover Plus: Hedgerows 2016-2021 (England) |
| Description | This dataset contains a model of the extent and height class of woody linear features on field boundaries in England, including hedgerows, tree lines and semi-natural thickets of shrubs and trees. The model was derived from processing of the Environment Agency lidar product (National Lidar Programme), captured in 2016-2021, and the linework is consistent with the polygon boundaries used in the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) Land Cover Map (LCM). Due to expected low densities of woody linear features, and potential uncertainty, areas excluded from the coverage include LCM classes of mountain/moor/heath, open water and the coastal zone, urban/suburban areas and woodlands (i.e., areas of continuous non-linear woody cover). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset will enable policy makers and farmers to rapidly and accurately assess the extent and condition of hedgerows for their area of interest. |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d90a3733-2949-4dfa-8ac2-a88aef8699be |
| Title | Weekly, monthly and yearly recreation demand maps for the UK |
| Description | This dataset contains recreation demand maps for the UK based on weekly, monthly and yearly visit frequencies. Recreation includes activities such as walking, hiking, cycling, etc, i.e., 'outdoor non-vehicular recreation'. Recreation demand was calculated as the number of projected visits for local recreation, estimated using the universal law of human mobility (Schläpfer et al., 2021, Nature). Recreation demand maps are supplied at 250 m resolution in a British National Grid transverse Mercator projection (EPSG 27700). For each visit frequency (weekly, monthly and yearly), there is a map with and without attractiveness included in the calculation, where protected areas are used a proxy for attractiveness. This research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/W005050/1 AgZero+ : Towards sustainable, climate-neutral farming. AgZero+ is an initiative jointly supported by NERC and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)". |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset enabled the publication of a a peer-reviewed paper in Ecological Indicators in October 2023. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X23009214 Potential NE research contract to assess protected areas according to recreational pressure. Links to other UKCEH projects on exposure to vector borne disease (OPTICK, TICKSOLVE). |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/bd3bf607-a3b2-423b-b07b-9c41e84746ee |
| Title | Woburn Erosion Reference Experiment crop yields. |
| Description | Annual arable crop yields for each plot of the Woburn Erosion Reference Experiment, 1988-1998. Also potato % ware, sugar beet % sugar, and other sugar beet yield components. Also annual fertilizer applications. There were eight plots, in a 2x2 factorial, with two blocks. Treatments were two directions of cultivation (cultivated and drilled parallel to the contour v up and down the slope) and two types of cultivation (standard cultivation, residue removed v minimal tillage, residues retained). All plots grew the same crops each year, in a rotation typical of the sandy soils of Bedfordshire. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/dataset/wrn20/01-RN20YLD |
| Title | Woburn Erosion Reference Experiment plot soil total C and N |
| Description | Soil data for each plot of the Woburn Erosion Reference Experiment, 1989-1996. The soil from each plot was sampled in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1996 and analysed for total carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) concentration (%). Total N was also measured in 1989. Data is for topsoil (0-10, 0-15 or 0-20cm) plus 50-60cm in 1992 only. This is the data described by Quinton et al, 2006. Clay content was also measured in 1996, as reported by Quinton and Catt, 2007. The experiment had eight plots, in a 2x2 factorial, with two blocks. Treatments were two directions of cultivation (cultivated and drilled parallel to the contour v up and down the slope) and two types of tillage (conventional tillage, residue removed v minimal tillage, residues retained). Crop yield and erosion and runoff data is published separately. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/dataset/wrn20/01-RN20SOIL |
| Title | Woburn Erosion Reference Experiment soil erosion and surface runoff data |
| Description | The dataset contains details of the soil loss, runoff, sediment chemistry and texture, and water chemistry data for each erosion and runoff event from each plot of the Woburn Erosion Reference Experiment, 1989-1998. The experiment had eight plots, in a 2x2 factorial, with two blocks. Treatments were two directions of cultivation (cultivated and drilled parallel to the contour v up and down the slope) and two types of cultivation (standard cultivation, residue removed v minimal tillage, residues retained). The total number of erosion events was determined by those occurring on Plot 7, which always produced runoff and erosion when any other plot was eroded, and occasionally when no other plot was. There were a maximum of 63 events, 1989-1998. Crop yield and plot soil data is published separately. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/dataset/wrn20/01-RN20SED |
| Description | Collaboration with Farm and Wildlife Advisory Group ELMs trail |
| Organisation | Farm and Wildlife Advisory Group South West |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Farm scale analysis of landscape metrics using high resolution satellite data and associations with ecosystem services |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data on farm habitat and management data from farmer network engaged in ELMs test and trials project |
| Impact | Framework for benchmarking farms and monitoring impact of practice using farm scale landscape metrics |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with the University of San Paulo on carbon modelling |
| Organisation | Universidade de São Paulo |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We hosted a visiting student to work on carbon modelling in relation to cover crops |
| Collaborator Contribution | The provided data and expertise on the cover crop systems |
| Impact | A paper is being drafted |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Digestate Fertiliser trial collaboration with the University of South Wales |
| Organisation | University of South Wales |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We used the USW digestate fertiliser in an on farm trial to explore GHG mitigation and yield outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | USW provided a novel slow nitrogen release fertilser for us to trial in our AgZero+ farm greenhouse gas mitigation trials |
| Impact | New data on the potential GHG mitigation benefit of using digestate instead of mineral fertilisers |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | FELLOW |
| Organisation | French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration studying the Spatio-temporal dynamics of weed communities and their role on biodiversity-mediated ecosystem services along a gradient of human pressures |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration studying the Spatio-temporal dynamics of weed communities and their role on biodiversity-mediated ecosystem services along a gradient of human pressures |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | FELLOW |
| Organisation | INRA (UMR-MISTEA) Montpellier, France |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration studying the Spatio-temporal dynamics of weed communities and their role on biodiversity-mediated ecosystem services along a gradient of human pressures |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration studying the Spatio-temporal dynamics of weed communities and their role on biodiversity-mediated ecosystem services along a gradient of human pressures |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | FELLOW |
| Organisation | National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS) |
| Department | UMR5175 Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE) |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration studying the Spatio-temporal dynamics of weed communities and their role on biodiversity-mediated ecosystem services along a gradient of human pressures |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration studying the Spatio-temporal dynamics of weed communities and their role on biodiversity-mediated ecosystem services along a gradient of human pressures |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | NCEO Rothamsted field work collaboration |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Working out the field work plan and bring equipment for the field work |
| Collaborator Contribution | Providing the lab for us to store the equipment, maintain the status of the equipment and providing help during the field work. |
| Impact | Just started this year, so no outcome yet. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | PML membership of the Tamar Catchment Partnership |
| Organisation | Westcountry Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Sharing of: i) time-series observations of water quality, ii) investigation of nature based solutions, iii) leadership of water quality assessment for EA, National Trust and community groups Hosting of 2 x stakeholder engagement events |
| Collaborator Contribution | Westcountry Rivers Trust coordinate this partnership on behalf of Defra/Environment Agency. Significant engagement of NGO's, HEIs, community groups, landowners and farming community |
| Impact | Ongoing partner engagement, research activities including sustained observations, wetland re-alignment and agricultural intervention assessment |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Remote Sensing Soil Moisture Variability for precision weed management |
| Organisation | University of Reggio Calabria |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration to use remote sensing data to help predict the location of black-grass patches for precision weed management |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration to use remote sensing data to help predict the location of black-grass patches for precision weed management |
| Impact | Combined maps of weed occurrence and earth observation data |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | UKCEH partnership with LEAF to become a LEAF Innovation Centre |
| Organisation | Linking Environment And Farming |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The AgZero+ programme will showcase cutting edge applied science to enable reduction of GHG emissions from agriculture and enhanced carbon capture |
| Collaborator Contribution | LEAF will provide links to a large number of farming industry and food supply chain stakeholders |
| Impact | None to date |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Title | Ecological status dashboard |
| Description | Dashboard for exploring "ecological status" of individual 1km cells (i.e. expected cross-taxa species richness in comparison to the most species rich areas in the same landscape"), built from the SDMs created under WP1.12. The tool is in beta testing stage, with selected users currently testing with a view to getting feedback for refinement ahead of a launch later this year or in 2025 |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Impact not yet quantified - tool is in beta testing stage, with selected users currently testing with a view to getting feedback for refinement ahead of a launch later this year or in 2025 |
| URL | https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/1fff3f3bbc50490d8b4368cadc786ec0 |
| Title | EntoInsights R package |
| Description | EntoInsights is an R package available on GitHub containing common functions supporting the analysis of automated monitoring data from the Automated Monitoring of Insects (AMI) system. These include functions that download data subsamples from the data store on JASMIN, extracts crops of insects, and extract night of survey to assist analysis efforts. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | The package functions have been used to extract crops of species classified using a species classification workflow. These labelled crops have been passed to an entomologist for validation to assess model performance. We have also downloaded images from the JASMIN data store that have high insect activity for reporting to our partners. Currently the repository is private, but it will be made public in future. |
| Title | Hedgerow dashboard |
| Description | ArcGIS dashboard allowing side by side 2D/3D visualisation of the hedgerows data. This isn't officially launched, but we're using it for stakeholder engagement .If this is made publicly accessible outside of the Royal Geographic Society's new story I would recommend attaching this licence to be consistent with the underlying dataset: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Impact | Stakeholder engagement (e.g. Royal Geographic Society) |
| URL | https://ceh.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/2a313b1fb1824e829777abe730e7a303 |
| Title | Python version of RothC Official Rothamsted Research Release |
| Description | The Rothamsted carbon model Python version (RothC_Py) Purpose RothC models the turnover of organic carbon in non-waterlogged top-soil. It accounts for the effects of soil texture, temperature, moisture content and plant cover on the turnover process. It uses a monthly time step to calculate total organic carbon (t ha-1), microbial biomass carbon (t ha-1) and ?14C (from which the equivalent radiocarbon age of the soil can be calculated). Development history The first version of RothC created by David Jenkinson and James Rayner in 1977 (Jenkinson and Rayner, 1977). In 1987 an updated version was published, see Jenkinson et al. (1987). This version included the prediction of the radiocarbon age of the soil, the pools POM (physically stabilized organic matter) and COM (chemically stabilized organic matter) were replaced with Hum (humified organic matter) and IOM (inert organic matter), and the microbial biomass pool was split into BioA (autochthonous biomass) and BioZ (zymogenous biomass). In 1990, the two biomass pools were combined into a single pool (Jenkinson, 1990) this version is the standard version of the model, that this code refers to. Other published developments of the model include: Farina et al. (2013) modified the soil water dynamics for semi-arid regions. Giongo et al. (2020) created a daily version and modified the soil water dynamics, for Caatinga shrublands, in the semiarid region, North-East Brazil. Description of files included RothC_description.pdf This file contains the description of the model. RothC_Py.py This file contains the RothC code in Python language. Details of the inputs required, pools modelled, and units are in the code. RothC_input.dat This file contains input variables for the model. At the start of the file values for clay (%), soil depth (cm), inert organic matter (IOM, t C ha-1) and number of steps (nsteps) are recorded.Following that there is a table which records monthly data on year, month, percentage of modern carbon (%), mean air temperature (Tmp, °C), total monthly rainfall (Rain, mm), total monthly open-pan evaporation (Evap, mm), all carbon input entering the soil (from plants, roots, root exudates) (C_inp, t C ha-1), carbon input from farmyard manure (FYM, t C ha-1), plant cover (PC, 0 for no plants e.g. bare or post-harvest, 1 for plants e.g. crop or grass), and the DPM/RPM ratio (DPM_RPM) of the carbon inputs from plants. year_results.csv This file contains the yearly values of the SOC (both the pools and Total) and the delta 14-carbon. The pools are:YearMonth - Always December for the yearly outputDPM - Decomposable plant material (t C ha-1)RPM - Resistant plant material (t C ha-1)BIO - Microbial biomass (t C ha-1)HUM - Humified organic matter (t C ha-1)IOM - Inert organic matter (t C ha-1)SOC - Total soil organic carbon (t C ha-1)deltaC - delta 14C (‰) The total organic carbon (soil organic carbon) is equal to the sum of the 5 pools. TOC or SOC = DRM + RPM + BIO + HUM + IOM month_results.csv This file contains the monthly inputs, rate modifying factors, SOC pools. YearMonthDPM_t_C_ha - Decomposable plant material (t C ha-1)RPM_t_C_ha - Resistant plant material (t C ha-1)BIO_t_C_ha - Microbial biomass (t C ha-1)HUM_t_C_ha - Humified organic matter (t C ha-1)IOM_t_C_ha - Inert organic matter (t C ha-1)SOC_t_C_ha - Total soil organic carbon (t C ha-1) Requirements The code was written in Python 3.9.7. Installation/set-up A directory path will need to be provided as indicated in the code (["INPUT DIRECTORY PATH"]), to read in RothC_input.dat. Example of how to run the modelThe file RothC_input.dat contains all the inputs data needed to run the model. The month results (month_results.csv) and year results (year_results.csv) files correspond to this input file as an example. The model is normally run to equilibrium using average temperature, rainfall, open pan evaporation, an average carbon input to the soil, the equilibrium run is to initialise the soil carbon pools. Once the soil carbon pools have been initialised, the model is run for the period of interest. The met data (temperature, rainfall and evaporation) can be average or actual weather data. The carbon input to the soil can be: 1) adjusted so the modelled output matches the measured data, or 2) can be estimated from yield data (Bolinder et al., 2007), or NPP data. References Bolinder MA, Janzen HH, Gregorich EG, Angers DA, VandenBygaart AJ. An approach for estimating net primary productivity and annual carbon inputs to soil for common agricultural crops in Canada. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 2007; 118: 29-42.Farina R, Coleman K, Whitmore AP. Modification of the RothC model for simulations of soil organic C dynamics in dryland regions. Geoderma 2013; 200: 18-30.Giongo V, Coleman K, Santana MD, Salviano AM, Olszveski N, Silva DJ, et al. Optimizing multifunctional agroecosystems in irrigated dryland agriculture to restore soil carbon - Experiments and modelling. Science of the Total Environment 2020; 725.Jenkinson DS. The Turnover of Organic-Carbon and Nitrogen in Soil. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 1990; 329: 361-368.Jenkinson DS, Hart PBS, Rayner JH, Parry LC. Modelling the turnover of organic matter in long-term experiments at Rothamsted. INTECOL Bulletin 1987; 15: 1-8.Jenkinson DS, Rayner JH. Turnover of soil organic matter in some of the Rothamsted classical experiments. Soil Science 1977; 123: 298-305. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10732264 |
| Title | Python version of RothC Official Rothamsted Research Release |
| Description | The Rothamsted carbon model Python version (RothC_Py) Purpose RothC models the turnover of organic carbon in non-waterlogged top-soil. It accounts for the effects of soil texture, temperature, moisture content and plant cover on the turnover process. It uses a monthly time step to calculate total organic carbon (t ha-1), microbial biomass carbon (t ha-1) and ?14C (from which the equivalent radiocarbon age of the soil can be calculated). Development history The first version of RothC created by David Jenkinson and James Rayner in 1977 (Jenkinson and Rayner, 1977). In 1987 an updated version was published, see Jenkinson et al. (1987). This version included the prediction of the radiocarbon age of the soil, the pools POM (physically stabilized organic matter) and COM (chemically stabilized organic matter) were replaced with Hum (humified organic matter) and IOM (inert organic matter), and the microbial biomass pool was split into BioA (autochthonous biomass) and BioZ (zymogenous biomass). In 1990, the two biomass pools were combined into a single pool (Jenkinson, 1990) this version is the standard version of the model, that this code refers to. Other published developments of the model include: Farina et al. (2013) modified the soil water dynamics for semi-arid regions. Giongo et al. (2020) created a daily version and modified the soil water dynamics, for Caatinga shrublands, in the semiarid region, North-East Brazil. Description of files included RothC_description.pdf This file contains the description of the model. RothC_Py.py This file contains the RothC code in Python language. Details of the inputs required, pools modelled, and units are in the code. RothC_input.dat This file contains input variables for the model. At the start of the file values for clay (%), soil depth (cm), inert organic matter (IOM, t C ha-1) and number of steps (nsteps) are recorded.Following that there is a table which records monthly data on year, month, percentage of modern carbon (%), mean air temperature (Tmp, °C), total monthly rainfall (Rain, mm), total monthly open-pan evaporation (Evap, mm), all carbon input entering the soil (from plants, roots, root exudates) (C_inp, t C ha-1), carbon input from farmyard manure (FYM, t C ha-1), plant cover (PC, 0 for no plants e.g. bare or post-harvest, 1 for plants e.g. crop or grass), and the DPM/RPM ratio (DPM_RPM) of the carbon inputs from plants. year_results.csv This file contains the yearly values of the SOC (both the pools and Total) and the delta 14-carbon. The pools are:YearMonth - Always December for the yearly outputDPM - Decomposable plant material (t C ha-1)RPM - Resistant plant material (t C ha-1)BIO - Microbial biomass (t C ha-1)HUM - Humified organic matter (t C ha-1)IOM - Inert organic matter (t C ha-1)SOC - Total soil organic carbon (t C ha-1)deltaC - delta 14C (‰) The total organic carbon (soil organic carbon) is equal to the sum of the 5 pools. TOC or SOC = DRM + RPM + BIO + HUM + IOM month_results.csv This file contains the monthly inputs, rate modifying factors, SOC pools. YearMonthDPM_t_C_ha - Decomposable plant material (t C ha-1)RPM_t_C_ha - Resistant plant material (t C ha-1)BIO_t_C_ha - Microbial biomass (t C ha-1)HUM_t_C_ha - Humified organic matter (t C ha-1)IOM_t_C_ha - Inert organic matter (t C ha-1)SOC_t_C_ha - Total soil organic carbon (t C ha-1) Requirements The code was written in Python 3.9.7. Installation/set-up A directory path will need to be provided as indicated in the code (["INPUT DIRECTORY PATH"]), to read in RothC_input.dat. Example of how to run the modelThe file RothC_input.dat contains all the inputs data needed to run the model. The month results (month_results.csv) and year results (year_results.csv) files correspond to this input file as an example. The model is normally run to equilibrium using average temperature, rainfall, open pan evaporation, an average carbon input to the soil, the equilibrium run is to initialise the soil carbon pools. Once the soil carbon pools have been initialised, the model is run for the period of interest. The met data (temperature, rainfall and evaporation) can be average or actual weather data. The carbon input to the soil can be: 1) adjusted so the modelled output matches the measured data, or 2) can be estimated from yield data (Bolinder et al., 2007), or NPP data. References Bolinder MA, Janzen HH, Gregorich EG, Angers DA, VandenBygaart AJ. An approach for estimating net primary productivity and annual carbon inputs to soil for common agricultural crops in Canada. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 2007; 118: 29-42.Farina R, Coleman K, Whitmore AP. Modification of the RothC model for simulations of soil organic C dynamics in dryland regions. Geoderma 2013; 200: 18-30.Giongo V, Coleman K, Santana MD, Salviano AM, Olszveski N, Silva DJ, et al. Optimizing multifunctional agroecosystems in irrigated dryland agriculture to restore soil carbon - Experiments and modelling. Science of the Total Environment 2020; 725.Jenkinson DS. The Turnover of Organic-Carbon and Nitrogen in Soil. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 1990; 329: 361-368.Jenkinson DS, Hart PBS, Rayner JH, Parry LC. Modelling the turnover of organic matter in long-term experiments at Rothamsted. INTECOL Bulletin 1987; 15: 1-8.Jenkinson DS, Rayner JH. Turnover of soil organic matter in some of the Rothamsted classical experiments. Soil Science 1977; 123: 298-305. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10732265 |
| Title | RothC Official Rothamsted Research Release |
| Description | The Rothamsted carbon model (RothC) Purpose Roth C models the turnover of organic carbon in non-waterlogged top-soil. It accounts for the effects of soil texture, temperature, moisture content and plant cover on the turnover process. It uses a monthly time step to calculate total organic carbon (t ha -1), microbial biomass carbon (t ha -1) and ?14C (from which the equivalent radiocarbon age of the soil can be calculated). Development history The first version of RothC created by David Jenkinson and James Rayner in 1977 (Jenkinson and Rayner, 1977). In 1987 an updated version was published, see Jenkinson et al. (1987). This version included the prediction of the radiocarbon age of the soil, the pools POM (physically stabilized organic matter) and COM (chemically stabilized organic matter) were replaced with Hum (humified organic matter) and IOM (inert organic matter), and the microbial biomass pool was split into BioA (autochthonous biomass) and BioZ (zymogenous biomass). In 1990, the two biomass pools were combined into a single pool (Jenkinson, 1990) this version is the standard version of the model, that this code refers to. Other published developments of the model include: Farina et al. (2013) modified the soil water dynamics for semi-arid regions. Giongo et al. (2020) created a daily version and modified the soil water dynamics, for Caatinga shrublands, in the semiarid region, North-East Brazil. Description of files included RothC_description.docx This file contains the description of the model. RothC.for This file contains the RothC code, it can be used as a standalone subroutine or used with shell.for to create an exe file. Details of the inputs required, pools modelled, and units are in the code. Shell.for This file is intended as an example of how to: 1) read in the input data 2) call the subroutine 3) created monthly and yearly outputs The file can be used to create a standalone exe, or you can replace it with your own code to call and run RothC. Details of the inputs required, pools modelled, and units are in the code. RothC_input.dat This file contains input variables for the model. At the start of the file values for clay (%), soil depth (cm), inert organic matter (IOM, t C ha-1) and number of steps (nsteps) are recorded. Following that there is a table which records monthly data on year, month, percentage of modern carbon (%), mean air temperature (Tmp, °C), total monthly rainfall (Rain, mm), total monthly open-pan evaporation (Evap, mm), all carbon input entering the soil (from plants, roots, root exudates) (C_inp, t C ha-1), carbon input from farmyard manure (FYM, t C ha-1), plant cover (PC, 0 for no plants e.g. bare or post-harvest, 1 for plants e.g. crop or grass), and the DPM/RPM ratio (DPM_RPM) of the carbon inputs from plants. year_results.out This file contains the yearly values of the SOC (both the pools and Total) and the delta 14-carbon. The pools are: Year Month - Always December for the yearly output DPM - Decomposable plant material (t C ha-1) RPM - Resistant plant material (t C ha-1) BIO - Microbial biomass (t C ha-1) HUM - Humified organic matter (t C ha-1) IOM - Inert organic matter (t C ha-1) SOC - Total soil organic carbon (t C ha-1) deltaC - delta 14C (‰) The total organic carbon (soil organic carbon) is equal to the sum of the 5 pools. TOC or SOC = DRM + RPM + BIO + HUM + IOM month_results.out This file contains the monthly inputs, rate modifying factors, SOC pools. Year Month C_Inp_t_C_ha - C input (t C ha-1) FYM_Inp_t_C_ha - Farmyard manure (t C ha-1) TEMP_C - Air temperature (C) RM_TMP - Rate modifying factor for temperature (-) RAIN_mm - Rainfall (mm) PEVAP_mm - Open pan evaporation (mm) SWC_mm - Accumulated soil water deficit (mm) RM_Moist - Rate modifying factor for soil moisture (-) PC - Soil plant cover (0 bare or 1 covered) RM_PC - rate modifying factor for crop cover DPM_t_C_ha - Decomposable plant material (t C ha-1) RPM_t_C_ha - Resistant plant material (t C ha-1) BIO_t_C_ha - Microbial biomass (t C ha-1) HUM_t_C_ha - Humified organic matter (t C ha-1) IOM_t_C_ha - Inert organic matter (t C ha-1) SOC_t_C_ha - Total soil organic carbon (t C ha-1) Requirements The code does not require any particular of version of Fortran, so can be compiled in both windows and Linux. Installation/set-up A Fortran compiler is needed. The code can be used in the following ways: 1. The two Fortran files (RothC.for and Shell.for) can either be compiled and linked to create a standalone exe, which uses the input file (RothC_input.dat), when run, monthly (month_results.out) and yearly (year_results.out) output files are created. 2. The file (shell.for) can be modified to read in required data in the format you have, your modified code can be compiled and linked to RothC.for. 3. The file (RothC.for) can be called by your exiting code as a subroutine. Example of how to run the model The file RothC_input.dat contains all the inputs data needed to run the model. The month results (month_results.out) and year results (year_results.out) files correspond to this input file as an example. The model is normally run to equilibrium using average temperature, rainfall, open pan evaporation, an average carbon input to the soil, the equilibrium run is to initialise the soil carbon pools. Once the soil carbon pools have been initialised, the model is run for the period of interest. The met data (temperature, rainfall and evaporation) can be average or actual weather data. The carbon input to the soil can be: 1) adjusted so the modelled output matches the measured data, or 2) can be estimated from yield data (Bolinder et al., 2007), or NPP data. References Bolinder MA, Janzen HH, Gregorich EG, Angers DA, VandenBygaart AJ. An approach for estimating net primary productivity and annual carbon inputs to soil for common agricultural crops in Canada. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 2007; 118: 29-42. Farina R, Coleman K, Whitmore AP. Modification of the RothC model for simulations of soil organic C dynamics in dryland regions. Geoderma 2013; 200: 18-30. Giongo V, Coleman K, Santana MD, Salviano AM, Olszveski N, Silva DJ, et al. Optimizing multifunctional agroecosystems in irrigated dryland agriculture to restore soil carbon - Experiments and modelling. Science of the Total Environment 2020; 725. Jenkinson DS. The Turnover of Organic-Carbon and Nitrogen in Soil. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 1990; 329: 361-368. Jenkinson DS, Hart PBS, Rayner JH, Parry LC. Modelling the turnover of organic matter in long-term experiments at Rothamsted. INTECOL Bulletin 1987; 15: 1-8. Jenkinson DS, Rayner JH. Turnover of soil organic matter in some of the Rothamsted classical experiments. Soil Science 1977; 123: 298-305. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10707407 |
| Title | RothC Official Rothamsted Research Release |
| Description | The Rothamsted carbon model (RothC) Purpose Roth C models the turnover of organic carbon in non-waterlogged top-soil. It accounts for the effects of soil texture, temperature, moisture content and plant cover on the turnover process. It uses a monthly time step to calculate total organic carbon (t ha -1), microbial biomass carbon (t ha -1) and ?14C (from which the equivalent radiocarbon age of the soil can be calculated). Development history The first version of RothC created by David Jenkinson and James Rayner in 1977 (Jenkinson and Rayner, 1977). In 1987 an updated version was published, see Jenkinson et al. (1987). This version included the prediction of the radiocarbon age of the soil, the pools POM (physically stabilized organic matter) and COM (chemically stabilized organic matter) were replaced with Hum (humified organic matter) and IOM (inert organic matter), and the microbial biomass pool was split into BioA (autochthonous biomass) and BioZ (zymogenous biomass). In 1990, the two biomass pools were combined into a single pool (Jenkinson, 1990) this version is the standard version of the model, that this code refers to. Other published developments of the model include: Farina et al. (2013) modified the soil water dynamics for semi-arid regions. Giongo et al. (2020) created a daily version and modified the soil water dynamics, for Caatinga shrublands, in the semiarid region, North-East Brazil. Description of files included RothC_description.docx This file contains the description of the model. RothC.for This file contains the RothC code, it can be used as a standalone subroutine or used with shell.for to create an exe file. Details of the inputs required, pools modelled, and units are in the code. Shell.for This file is intended as an example of how to: 1) read in the input data 2) call the subroutine 3) created monthly and yearly outputs The file can be used to create a standalone exe, or you can replace it with your own code to call and run RothC. Details of the inputs required, pools modelled, and units are in the code. RothC_input.dat This file contains input variables for the model. At the start of the file values for clay (%), soil depth (cm), inert organic matter (IOM, t C ha-1) and number of steps (nsteps) are recorded. Following that there is a table which records monthly data on year, month, percentage of modern carbon (%), mean air temperature (Tmp, °C), total monthly rainfall (Rain, mm), total monthly open-pan evaporation (Evap, mm), all carbon input entering the soil (from plants, roots, root exudates) (C_inp, t C ha-1), carbon input from farmyard manure (FYM, t C ha-1), plant cover (PC, 0 for no plants e.g. bare or post-harvest, 1 for plants e.g. crop or grass), and the DPM/RPM ratio (DPM_RPM) of the carbon inputs from plants. year_results.out This file contains the yearly values of the SOC (both the pools and Total) and the delta 14-carbon. The pools are: Year Month - Always December for the yearly output DPM - Decomposable plant material (t C ha-1) RPM - Resistant plant material (t C ha-1) BIO - Microbial biomass (t C ha-1) HUM - Humified organic matter (t C ha-1) IOM - Inert organic matter (t C ha-1) SOC - Total soil organic carbon (t C ha-1) deltaC - delta 14C (‰) The total organic carbon (soil organic carbon) is equal to the sum of the 5 pools. TOC or SOC = DRM + RPM + BIO + HUM + IOM month_results.out This file contains the monthly inputs, rate modifying factors, SOC pools. Year Month C_Inp_t_C_ha - C input (t C ha-1) FYM_Inp_t_C_ha - Farmyard manure (t C ha-1) TEMP_C - Air temperature (C) RM_TMP - Rate modifying factor for temperature (-) RAIN_mm - Rainfall (mm) PEVAP_mm - Open pan evaporation (mm) SWC_mm - Accumulated soil water deficit (mm) RM_Moist - Rate modifying factor for soil moisture (-) PC - Soil plant cover (0 bare or 1 covered) RM_PC - rate modifying factor for crop cover DPM_t_C_ha - Decomposable plant material (t C ha-1) RPM_t_C_ha - Resistant plant material (t C ha-1) BIO_t_C_ha - Microbial biomass (t C ha-1) HUM_t_C_ha - Humified organic matter (t C ha-1) IOM_t_C_ha - Inert organic matter (t C ha-1) SOC_t_C_ha - Total soil organic carbon (t C ha-1) Requirements The code does not require any particular of version of Fortran, so can be compiled in both windows and Linux. Installation/set-up A Fortran compiler is needed. The code can be used in the following ways: 1. The two Fortran files (RothC.for and Shell.for) can either be compiled and linked to create a standalone exe, which uses the input file (RothC_input.dat), when run, monthly (month_results.out) and yearly (year_results.out) output files are created. 2. The file (shell.for) can be modified to read in required data in the format you have, your modified code can be compiled and linked to RothC.for. 3. The file (RothC.for) can be called by your exiting code as a subroutine. Example of how to run the model The file RothC_input.dat contains all the inputs data needed to run the model. The month results (month_results.out) and year results (year_results.out) files correspond to this input file as an example. The model is normally run to equilibrium using average temperature, rainfall, open pan evaporation, an average carbon input to the soil, the equilibrium run is to initialise the soil carbon pools. Once the soil carbon pools have been initialised, the model is run for the period of interest. The met data (temperature, rainfall and evaporation) can be average or actual weather data. The carbon input to the soil can be: 1) adjusted so the modelled output matches the measured data, or 2) can be estimated from yield data (Bolinder et al., 2007), or NPP data. References Bolinder MA, Janzen HH, Gregorich EG, Angers DA, VandenBygaart AJ. An approach for estimating net primary productivity and annual carbon inputs to soil for common agricultural crops in Canada. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 2007; 118: 29-42. Farina R, Coleman K, Whitmore AP. Modification of the RothC model for simulations of soil organic C dynamics in dryland regions. Geoderma 2013; 200: 18-30. Giongo V, Coleman K, Santana MD, Salviano AM, Olszveski N, Silva DJ, et al. Optimizing multifunctional agroecosystems in irrigated dryland agriculture to restore soil carbon - Experiments and modelling. Science of the Total Environment 2020; 725. Jenkinson DS. The Turnover of Organic-Carbon and Nitrogen in Soil. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 1990; 329: 361-368. Jenkinson DS, Hart PBS, Rayner JH, Parry LC. Modelling the turnover of organic matter in long-term experiments at Rothamsted. INTECOL Bulletin 1987; 15: 1-8. Jenkinson DS, Rayner JH. Turnover of soil organic matter in some of the Rothamsted classical experiments. Soil Science 1977; 123: 298-305. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10707406 |
| Title | Upgraded Automated Monitoring of Insects (AMI) system |
| Description | The AMI system is a survey device that allows for continuous monitoring of surrounding activity over extensive time periods, capturing images of night time flying insects, with a focus on moths as indicators of wider ecosystem biodiversity. The capabilities of the AMI system have been improved, adding 1) telemetry for remote checks of monitoring system health and 2) microphone devices that capture surrounding audio at alternating audible and ultrasound frequencies. The AMI system has also been configured to time monitoring around sunset and sunrise hours to record during peak monitoring periods. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | After the 2024 monitoring season, we have many terabytes of data in the form of images capturing the activity of night time flying insects and recordings of birds, bats, and other animals. |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/solutions/equipment/automated-monitoring-insects-trap |
| Title | e-planner updates |
| Description | New functionality in e-planner allowing visualisation and exploration of hedgerows heights and lengths per farm, from the new Land Cover Plus: Hedgerows data product we developed under WP1 |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Impacts not yet quantified |
| URL | https://e-planner.ceh.ac.uk |
| Description | ADA Environment Day presentation - John Redhead |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation at Association of Drainage Authorities Environment Day (~120 attendees). Presented on Fens CCRA and links to AgZero+ peatland re-wetting work. Follow up conversations with attendees around WP1 datasets, WP5 tools etc |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.ada.org.uk/events/environment-day/ |
| Description | AgZero+ and ASSIST meeting with Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UKCEH met with the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust at their Loddington research farm to discuss collaborative opportunities with the AgZero+ and ASSIST programmes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | AgZero+ meeting with Harper Adams University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UKCEH presented te AgZero+ and ASSIST research programmes to the Environmental Sustainability Land & Soil Group and farm management team at Harper Adams University. Opportunitoes for collaboration were discussed, including a large-scale peatland re-wetting experiment on the research farm. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | AgriFood4NetZero Big Tent Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Held at the Cloth Hall Court in Leeds on 26 and 27 April 2023, the Big Tent brought together stakeholders from across the agri-food system for two days of learning, collaboration and networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.agrifood4netzero.net/big-tent-2023.html |
| Description | Agronomists training day on AgZero+ digital tools 26 March 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | AgZero+ held a training event for 20 agronomists from AGRII (the largest agronomy company in the UK) to train them in the use of the AgZero+ digital tools - the ePlanner spatial targeting decision support tool for farmers and the eSurveyor AI- computer vision mobile phone app for recording biodiversity on farms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Association of Applied Biologists (AAB) Regenerative Agriculture meeting 25-26/4/23 - Oral presentation on: 'Regen Ag practices for control of insect pests in oilseed rape' - York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation in person and online audience. Lots of questions, good discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.aab.org.uk/event/regenerative-agriculture-understanding-the-opportunities-and-challenges... |
| Description | Association of Applied Biology (AAB) cultivating wisdom |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on AgZero+ and beneficial insects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Attendance at 2 day AgriFood4NetZero Big Tent event 13-14 March 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Big Tent 2024 brought together nearly 200 people including researchers, business leaders, policy-makers and voluntary organisations. Delegates reviewed the main priorities for research and action for the agri-food system's net zero transition, helped shape the £600K second call for proposals for research and innovation and discussed the main ways that AFN Network+ activities could support members in advancing change over the following 18 months. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agrifood4netzero.net/events/big-tent-2024/ |
| Description | Attendance at the Oxford Real Farming conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chatted informally with farmers about AgZero+ and in sessions, where relevant to promote the project and encourage engagement with the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Automated monitoring of insects in the tropics. - Jenna Lawson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the use of AMI at digital gathering. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | BASE farmers - organized a workshop on sustainable agriculture methods + Carabid id session 27/3/23 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented results from project work and ran training session on how to identity carabid beetles; several offers to host AgZero+ sites but none turned out to be suitable |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | BBC Radio 4 Farming Today |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BBC Radio 4 Farming Today, referenced UKCEH and Sussex in the programme and their episode blub https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027tz7 (9mins in) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027tz7 |
| Description | BBC World Service's Newshour programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | interview on BBC World Service's Newshour programme, which was syndicated on US and Australian radio - talking about pesticide use in the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172zb9cr2snyxs |
| Description | BBSRC biodiversity workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on the importance of biodiversity research and future areas for exploration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | BeeCraft article about NHMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Anna Oliver worked together with Stephen Fleming, co-editor of BeeCraft, to write a 3-page article about NHMS and the honey processing pipeline. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bee-craft.com/ |
| Description | Bees and disease - Mike Bennett |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Bees and disease article in Beecraft magazine |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | CREST farm advisors conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk about encouraging carabid beetles on farm land |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Calstock Wetlands and re-alignment project - Stakeholder Group meetiung |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A re-alignment exercise of the River Tamar at Calstock was performed during autumn-winter 2021, with creation of wetland from agricultural land with aim to provide flood protection, enhance biodiversity and create potential for carbon sequestration and mitigate against elevated nutrient load derived from catchment wide agriculture. This meeting was the first in a series to introduce and engage stakeholder groups in the project (Environment Agency, National Trust, South West Water, Tamar Valley AONB, Tamar Catchment Partnership, Westcountry Rivers Trust, and others) with PML staff presenting results from first 8 months of study to guide further activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.tamarvalley.org.uk/rivertamarwalkwayandwetlandproject/ |
| Description | Chaired a discussion panel at the Groundswell 2024 event entitled: 'Making Research Work in Practice for Regenerative Agriculture' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Richard Pywell chaired a discussion panel at the Groundswell 2024 event entitled: 'Making Research Work in Practice for Regenerative Agriculture'. This presented the findings of the programme and a number of UKRI Transforming the Food System projects to a farmer and policy stakeholder audience. This led to significant requests for further involvement in the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://groundswellag.com/sessions/making-research-work-in-practice-for-regenerative-agriculture/ |
| Description | Check Your Thread Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Podcast interview on sustainable food production |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://checkyourthread.com/podcast/102-sustainability-in-food-production-with-helen-metcalfe/ |
| Description | Check Your Thread: Sustainable Food Production |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A podcast interview aimed at the general public with an interest in sustainability. I was interviewed as an expert in sustainable agriculture answering questions about pesticides, protein sources, local food and other topical issues around sourcing sustainable food |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://checkyourthread.com/podcast/102-sustainability-in-food-production-with-helen-metcalfe/ |
| Description | Codesign workshop on surveillance for tree health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We held a codesign workshop in collaboration with Warwick University and Forest Research to discuss issues related to surveillance and management of tree health |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Conference poster at the British Ecological Society - Zephyr Orsler |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conference poster at the British Ecological Society on recreation demand in protected areas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-annual-meeting-2024/ |
| Description | Conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation made at Estuarine and Coastal Restoration Conference with 100+ participants. Talk detailed transport of carbon and nutrients between freshwater to coastal seas and the impact on downstream systems. High interest from EA and NGOs and HEI |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://coastal-futures.net/rememare-2023 |
| Description | Conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker at UK Seagrass Symposium. Presentation of catchment to coast nutrient transport and how it impacts on coastal water quality |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://oceanconservationtrust.org/ocean-habitats/uk-seagrass-symposium/ |
| Description | Conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Co-Organiser and presentation at Advances in Marine Biogeochemistry conference detailing transport of material from river catchment to coastal waters |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.challenger-society.org.uk/Advances_in_Marine_Biogeochemistry |
| Description | Conference presentation at the British Ecological Society - Lucy Ridding |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation at the British Ecological Society on e-Surveyor habitat development testing with citizen scientists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-annual-meeting-2024/ |
| Description | DEFRA visit to UKCEH. Oct 2024 - Grace Skinner |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Gave an informal talk to our DEFRA visitors at East Hendred farm about the AMI system using the demo AMI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Defra and UKCEH workshop on pesticides and the environment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | "UKCEH and Defra held a joint workshop to discuss monitoring pesticides and modelling their impact on the environment to support the 25 Year Environment Plan indicator on chemicals - Exposure and adverse effects of chemicals on wildlife in the environment: interim H4 indicator: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/exposure-and-adverse-effects-of-chemicals-on-wildlife-in-the-environment-interim-h4-indicator " |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Defra's Social Science Expert Group presentation of WP1.13 paper and data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion about recreation being incorporated into ELMs. They will come to me for advice on counters to measure it (that is something I have looked in to for AgZero+), but I have also just shared our paper and the data behind it with them. I flagged how payments for recreation have multiple wins (e.g. people may recreate in areas that tick other defra targets - like more biodiverse areas, but also for other department e.g. physical and mental health). They are very happy and said the more evidence they get, might help turn the conversations within Defra into reality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Demonstration given at the approaches to the Monitoring of Biodiversity (MAMBO) project annual meeting (2023), Malta - Tom August and David Roy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave a demonstration of automated biodiversity monitoring systems at the Monitoring of Biodiversity (MAMBO) project annual meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mambo-project.eu/about |
| Description | Devon agricultural association Farmwise schools event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of beneficial invertebrates and engagements with school children |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Diseases and bees - Mike Bennett |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Newbury Beekeepers association |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Edina Digimap webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar covering Land Cover Map and Land Cover plus data products, via Edina (who license these products to academic institutions on our behalf) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ldOChqD0iEtS9mE1K616dfgF9vfzgKaco#/registration |
| Description | Engagement of the AgZero+ programme with Unilever |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Following the Cereals 2022 Event, UKCEH had a meeitng with Unilever to discuss how to monitor and measure the impacts of farm management practices to reduce emissions and capture carbon. This considered by UK and overseas food production for Unilever products. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with Leeds University Farm for AgZero+ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to discuss how the AgZero+ programme could collaborate with Leeds University, specifically the Leeds University Farm platform and the BESTMAP EU project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with the Land App and Sainsburys to support sustainable livestock production |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | During 2022 and 2023 we have engaged with the Land App and Sainsbury's to provide digital tools to allow Sainsbury's livestock farmers produce beef in a more sustainable way. This has involved co-design of new capabilities in the Land App that incorporate environmental decisions support data sets from e-planner (developed in ASSIST and AgZero+). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://thelandapp.com/2023/03/01/sustainable_supply_chain_sainsburys/ |
| Description | Engagement with the agroecology research collaboration - attendance at workshop/conference and follow up discussions on joint working |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attendance at conference/workshop to discuss the Agroecology Research Collaboration aims and potential strategies for engaging with research organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/agroecology-research-collaboration/ |
| Description | European Congress of Entomology Heraklion, Crete, 16-20/9/23. Invited oral presentation (including registration fees) on ' Enhancing ecosystem service provision for EcoStacking: an oilseed rape exemplar' (as part of the Symposium session on Bioprotection). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited oral presentation. Great symposium with lively discussion. Reconnected with some old colleagues ; stimulated planned lab visit for 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ece2023.com/ |
| Description | Expert assessment of co-benefits of pollinator-targeted interventions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Expert panel using delphi process to determine co-benefits of pollinator targeted interventions undertaken for EU project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Farm walk on RSPB research farm |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk, workshop and farm walk demonstrating habitat management for carabids |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Farmer monitoring workshop (Defra Test & Trials) - Lucy Ridding, Richard Pywell |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | e-Surveyor app functionality was demonstrated at a farmer monitoring workshop as part of Defra Test & Trials (Wendling Beck). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.wendlingbeck.org/monitoring-evaluation |
| Description | Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on managing field margins for beneficial invertebrates |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Gave a series of presentations about the Automated Monitoring of Insects systems to staff, students, volunteers, and tourists at research stations in Costa Rica - Jenna Lawson, Abhi Mandela Ravivarma |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave a series of presentations about the Automated Monitoring of Insects systems to staff, students, volunteers, and tourists at research stations and deployment locations in Costa Rica |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Glyphosate Resistance press briefing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press briefing to report on the first case of glyphosate resistance in the UK and the implications for sustainable farming. Led to several articles in teh national broadsheets, international farming press, and new scientist magazine |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Groundswell |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended Groundswell- interviewed and talked to farmers about NetZero to gather data on practices being employed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Groundswell 2022 event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Attendance of the Groundswell 2022 regenerative agriculture event where we promoted the findings of the AgZero+ and ASSIST programmes to industry and policy stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.organicresearchcentre.com/news-events/events/groundswell-2022/ |
| Description | Groundswell 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 28-29 June 2023UKCEH exhibited at Groundswell 2023, a regenerative agriculture knowledge exchange event, demonstrating AgZero+ outputs including E-Planner, the AMI trap and the greenhouse gas flux towers. A speaking session and live demo of the E-Planner tool was also delivered. An on-stand demo of the AMI trap engaged the agricultural sector with this new technology. Approximately 400 people were engaged, contributing to a >100% increase in web traffic to the E-Planner in July (4600 visits) compared to May (2200 visits). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Groundswell regenerative agricultural festival. June 2024 - Jenna Lawson, Grace Skinner |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Ran stand on AMI, and Jenna gave short on-stand talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Groundswell session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interactive workshop in beneficial invertebrate ID and management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTsNRXIVqUk |
| Description | Hedgerows podcast episode |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | An episode of the UKCEH podcast 'Counting the Earth' focused on hedgerows, including the LIDAR hedgerows data and other work on the benefits of hedgerows. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://audioboom.com/posts/8448529-hedgelife-390-000 |
| Description | Hillesden Farm Research Platform Cotswold Farmers visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Workshop and field visit showcasing the Hillesden Farm Research Platform and the AgZero+ programme to leading farmers and agronomists from souhern England |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | House Of Commons Science, Innovation & Technology Committee Inquiry Into Insect Decline And UK Food Security |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Constructive dialogue at Westminster around the evidence base for insect declines |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Industry workshop on reduction of agricultural GHGs and increasing carbon sequestration at Hillesden, Bucks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Academic-industry workshop on practical ways to reduce of agricultural GHGs and increase carbon sequestration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | InsectAI Writing Retreat - Tom August, Dylan Carbone |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A writing retreat with researchers interested in insect monitoring and technology. Tom August engaged in discussions on methods of automated image collection and demonstrated the LepiSENSE system. Dylan Carbone engaged in discussions on metadata standards and their applications in automated insect monitoring. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | InsectAI annual meeting, Cyprus - Tom August, Aoife Cecilie Tetsche Sweeney, Dylan Carbone |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A meeting of 60 researchers and practitioners interested in automated monitoring of insects, hosted in Cyprus. Tom August gave a demonstration on the Automated Monitoring of Insects (AMI) System, whilst Dylan Carbone gave a a presentation on our approach to metadata capture whilst surveying with the Automated Monitoring of Insects system. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Integrated Pest Management Seminar for Asda Suppliers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to ASDA supermarket growers and supply chain on new approaches to integrated pest management and the use of digital tools for monitoring and managing crop pests |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Integrating biodiversity into productive arable agricultural systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk to ECCB conference in Prague 23.8.2022 on Integrating biodiversity into productive arable agricultural systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eccb2022.eu/en/symposia-sections-programme |
| Description | Invited panel member giving oral evidence to the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee on the inquiry into Insect Decline and UK Food Security |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee held a series of oral evidence sessions as part of its inquiry into 'Insect decline and UK food security' in 2023 https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7381/insect-decline-and-uk-food-security/. Having led a written submission to the inquiry by UKCEH, I was invited to be a witness and give evidence at a session at Westminster introducing the topic of insect decline, exploring the gaps in our knowledge and the role of 'Citizen Science', all topics which are covered under our work on the DRUID project. The report from the inquiry is yet to be released. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7381/insect-decline-and-uk-food-security/ |
| Description | Invited speaker at Rootstock |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented AgZero+ and material on habitat management for beneficial invertebrates |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Joint Agricultural Research Strategy launch for UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Agricultural Universities Council UK represents universities that both teach and research agriculture. Alongside strategic research institutes (including UKCEH), we deliver the lion's share of agricultural research in the UK.1 But, while groups of universities team up on projects all the time, we have not worked before as a whole sector. This shared strategy sets out, for the first time, steps that we have agreed to take together to make our research as effective and efficient as possible. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.auc-uk.org/research-strategy |
| Description | Latitude Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Stand on importance of insects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Launch of Sainsbury's/LandApp/UKCEH collaborative project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to ~60 Sainsbury's suppliers, covering introduction to E-Planner and how it can be integrated with other agricultural software (land app) and farm environmental planning |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Meeting with Angela MacLean, the UK Government Chief Scientist - Tom August |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Met Angela MacLean and had a 30 minutes discussion about the Automated Monitoring of Insects systems under development through AgZero+ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting with Fenland farmers to discuss peatland re-wetting and restoration field trials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Fenland farmers to discuss peatland re-wetting and restoration field trials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Meeting with Natural England at Moss Side Farm demonstration farm near Manchester to discuss peatland restoration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Natural England at Moss Side Farm to discuss peatland restoration, including the installation of GHG flux towers and autonomous biodiversity monitoring systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Meeting with farming stakeholders - Mark Rhodes-Smith |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We met with representatives from agricultural stakeholder groups to discuss how the information we produce on soil wetness could be made more widely available and tailored to their requirements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting with representatives from National Highways A303 Stonehenge Project to discuss calcareous grassland restoration on ex-arable land following Stonehenge tunnel construction |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with representatives from National Highways A303 Stonehenge Project to discuss plans of large-scale restoration of calcareous grassland on ex-arable land near the Stonehenge tunnel involving the design of field trials and monitoring |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Meeting with the AgZero+ Steering Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The year one findings and future plans of the AgZero+ programme were presented to the Programme Steering Group. There was a wide ranging discussion about how to maximise impact of the research and best to make the data, model and tools available to the academic community to enable them to lever additional funding from this National Capability investment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Met Office workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited attendee at Met Office workshop "UK agri-food system adaptation: Developing collaborative research opportunities to improve climate resilience of the UK agri-food system", 30 January 2023. Discussions around research gaps, current research and future opportunities for the agri-food sector |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Monitoring pesticide effect on bees as part of an H4 indicator for DEFRA - Ben Woodcock |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Monitoring pesticide effect on bees as part of an H4 indicator presentation in working group with OEP |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | NHMS newsletter to beekeepers - Jenny Shelton, Jo Savage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Update newsletter to beekeepers as part of NHMS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | NWO (Dutch Research Council) Conference, Netherlands - Tom August |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "The role of technology in monitoring biodiversity" - Keynote presentation. Covered the Automated Monitoring of Insects System. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | National Honey Monitoring Scheme - Ben Woodcock, Lindsay Newbold |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | -BBC Radio Oxfordshire |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jpgm4g |
| Description | National Honey Monitoring Scheme - Ben Woodcock, Lindsay Newbold |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Newsround on BBC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/videos/cg4qgnlx026o |
| Description | National Honey Monitoring Scheme - Ben Woodcock, Lindsay Newbold, Mike Bennett |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | October -BBC South today piece |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | National Honey Monitoring Scheme - Jenny Shelton |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Atom festival, Abingdon- c. 200 attendees. J. Shelton (https://atomsociety.org.uk/08-2024-science-by-many-the-power-of-citizen-science-for-research-dr-jenny-shelton/) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://atomsociety.org.uk/08-2024-science-by-many-the-power-of-citizen-science-for-research-dr-jenn... |
| Description | National Honey Monitoring Scheme - Lindsay Newbold |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | - Article on BBC Website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyl9vevgx9o |
| Description | National Honey Monitoring Scheme report to beekeepers - Jenny Shelton, Lindsay Newbold |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | National Honey Monitoring Scheme report to beekeepers describing eDNA pollen results |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Natural England Dung beetle farm day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on habitat management for ecosystem services |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | New IPM - One Health Conference Swansea 5-7/9/23 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation - very well received, lots of questions and led to development of a grant proposal with one of the audience members |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.swansea.ac.uk/bioscience/research-and-impact/natural-products-biohub-project/naturalprod... |
| Description | New technologies for monitoring pollinators, Bologna, Italy - David Roy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on new technologies for monitoring pollinators as part of the EU-funded SPRING project annual general meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ORFC oxford real farming conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organised workshop on carabid ID and contribution to sustainable crop protection |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Oral presentation Royal Entomological Society - Special Interest Group on Sustainable Agriculture: From monitoring to metrics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave an oral presentation on automated methods for detecting flying insects that was very well received. Stimulated conversation with Industry which may lead to grant application |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royensoc.co.uk/event/sustainable-agriculture-23/ |
| Description | PML presentation and stand at Devon County Show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | AgZero activities presented at stand within "Water Quality" marquee. Footfall of >1000 over 2 days which included farmers, schoolchildren and general public. Engagement with several farmers interested in measurements and means to reduce their nutrient loss to rivers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Panel discussion on Ai for biodiversity monitoring - Tom August |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A panel discussion at COP16 in Cali on the potential for AI to support biodiversity monitoring |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.cbd.int/conferences/2024 |
| Description | Parliamentary Showcase Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The AgZero+ and ASSIST environmental Decision Support Tools (e-planner, e-surveyor) were demonstrated to the Environment Minister (Rebecca Powell) and cross party Peers and MPs at a UKCEH Parliamentary Showcase in November 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Podcast on monitoring and managing soil biodiversity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UKCEH and the AgZero+ team produced a podcast called: Soil Superheroes: 50 trillion as part of our Counting the Earth podcast series. Listen to Soil Superheroes: 50 trillion and delve into the vital statistics of earthworms, as Alice and Sue uncover the unsung heroes of our soil. Alice goes digging on the allotment with UKCEH invertebrate scientist Alex Robinson looking at why earthworms are soil superheroes; Sue talks to National Earthworm recorder Keiron Brown about bringing AI to earthworm recognition and Ellen Fay from the Sustainable Soils Alliance discusses why healthy soils matter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://audioboom.com/posts/8464251-soil-superheroes-50-trillion |
| Description | Poster Presentation - British Society of Soil Science (BSSS) - Annual Career Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Early Career AgZero+ researcher Elisabeth Appleton won the best poster prize at the BSSS Early Career Conference. Her poster was titled: "Measuring N2O emissions from different nutrient management strategies". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://soils.org.uk/blog/reflecting-on-the-2023-bsss-early-careers-conference-in-belfast/ |
| Description | Poster presentation to Angela MacLean, the UK Government Chief Scientist - Grace Skinner and Dylan Carbone |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Gave a poster presentation on the results of an AgZero+ survey to Angela MacLean, the UK Government Chief Scientist |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation about surveying with the Automated Monitoring of Insects systems to the Organisation for Tropical Studies, Latin American Fieldwork Course, Palo Verde Research Station, Costa rica - Abhi Mandela Ravivarma, Jenna Lawson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave a presentation to the Organisation for Tropical Studies Latin American Fieldwork Course at Palo Verde Research Station. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation about the Automated Monitoring of Insects systems, given to Postgraduate Studies Department, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica - Abhi Mandela Ravivarma, Jenna Lawson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave a Presentation about the Automated Monitoring of Insects systems to the postgraduate studies department at the University of Costa Rica. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation and discussion with Environment Agency and National Trust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentations and workshop hosted by PML to EA, NT and University of Plymouth. Presentation and discussion of observations at two newly created wetland sites. Informed stakeholders on likely carbon sequestration and nutrient removal capacity of each site |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.tamarvalley-nl.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Calstock-PML-newsletter-July-2022.pdf |
| Description | Presentation and field workshop IUCN Peatland Programme 2023 conference, Ely |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and field demonstration of UKCEH flux towers and autonomous biodiversity monitoring systems to IUCN Conference delegates |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/conference-2023 |
| Description | Presentation and meeting with Defra Deputy Chief Scientist to discuss the AgZero+ project, sustainable farming and agri-environment monitoring |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and meeting with Defra Deputy Chief Scientist to discuss the AgZero+ project, sustainable farming and agri-environment monitoring |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation and workshop with the farming industry on soil carbon sqestration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and workshop discussion with representatives of the farming industry on the topic of carbon sequestration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at 3rd World Biodiversity Forum - David Roy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at 3rd World Biodiversity Forum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://worldbiodiversityforum2024.org/ |
| Description | Presentation at BES Resilient Landscapes for People, Nature and Climate conference 25 June 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of the AgZero+ programme results as an invited speaker (Richard Pywell) to the British Ecological Society Resilient Landscapes for People, Nature and Climate conference 25 June 2024. This led to a number of requests for participation in the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/events/resilient-landscapes-for-people-nature-and-climate/p... |
| Description | Presentation at Greensphere green finance workshop - David Roy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to business leaders on the potential of AMI systems for biodiversity assessment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation at International Congress of Entomology - Jenna Lawson and David Roy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the International Congress of Entomology, in Kyoto, Japan on the AMI system given to researchers interested in automated monitoring methods for insects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation at innovation stage at Digital with Purpose Global Summit - David Roy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the AMI system given to researchers interested in digital solutions for sustainability, in Lisbon, Portugal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://event.digitalwithpurpose.org/ |
| Description | Presentation at the Royal Entomological Society, Ento24 conference - Dylan Carbone |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given to attendees of the Royal Entomological Society (Ento24) conference in Liverpool. The presentation introduced attendees to monitoring with the AMI system and evaluated the performance of species classification algorithms at identifying species in tropical communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.royensoc.co.uk/event/ento24-in-person/ |
| Description | Presentation given at the European Conference of Tropical Ecology, in Lisbon, Portugal by Dylan Carbone |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introduced attendees to the Automated Monitoring of Insects (AMI) system, and discussed it's capabilities, the unique challenges of surveying in tropical ecosystems, and planned improvements on the AMI's design. This sparked many questions afterwards from researchers who were mostly interested in the species classification workflow we use to identify moth species. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.soctropecol-conference.eu/index.php?cat=show_start |
| Description | Presentation given to attendees of the GEO BON conference in Montreal, Canada by Grace Skinner |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introduced conference attendees to the Automated Monitoring of Insects (AMI) system, and demonstrated the capability for the AMI system to detect temporal changes in moth diversity. Compared results between surveys of farms that had enrolled in agri-environmental schemes and control farms. Many attendees approached with questions following presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://geobon.org/ |
| Description | Presentation of AMBER to Duke University at Las Cruces Research Station - Jenna Lawson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave a presentation to students of Duke University about the Automated Monitoring of Insects systems at Las Cruces Research Station, New Mexico, US. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation on AI for biological recording presentation at the BRC National Recording Schemes Meeting 2024 - Grace Skinner, Alba Gomez Segura |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | We delivered a presentation on how AI is currently being used in citizen science methods. We then introduced the audience to the Automated Monitoring of Insects system as a standardized alternative to traditional citizen science approaches. The presentation also covered the process of training models for species classification and discussed variation in the performance of these models when identifying different species. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.brc.ac.uk/article/brc-national-recording-schemes-meeting-2024 |
| Description | Presentation on Automated Monitoring Systems at Anguilla, Anguilla - Jenna Lawson, Tom August, David Roy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Gave a presentation about the Automated Monitoring of Insects systems at a meeting about invasive non-native species. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation on the Automated Monitoring of Insects given to the British Ambassador to Costa Rica, Costa Rica - Abhi Mandela Ravivarma, Jenna Lawson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Gave a Presentation on the Automated Monitoring of Insects systems to the British Ambassador in Costa Rica |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation to Southern Water farm cluster group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk on habitat management and AgZero+ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation to the Environment Minister Rebecca Powell MP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion of the environmental monitoring sensors and decisions support tools (eDST) developed in ASSIST and AgZero+. This included demonstration of the e-planner eDST, e-surveyor plant recrding mobile phone app and the Automated Biodiversity Monitoring station. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/defra-minister-visits-ukceh-may2022 |
| Description | Press release |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Press release: AI enables scientists to monitor impact of farming on biodiversity issued, with coverage in farming press including Farmers Guardian. Tom August was also interviewed by BBC Radio Oxford where he referred to the AI-supported biodiversity monitoring taking place as part of AgZero+. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/press/ai-enables-scientists-monitor-impact-farming-biodiversity |
| Description | Press release for UKCEH Land Cover Plus: Hedgerows |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press release for new hedgerows data product, and associated interviews with BBC (radio and online news articles) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/press/high-tech-aerial-mapping-reveals-englands-hedgerow-landscape |
| Description | RES AI in Entomology conference at Syngenta. July 2024 - Grace Skinner |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk on AMI with a focus on novel findings from the AMI, including the results of the 2023 pilot deployment for AgZero+. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | RGS Geovisualisation blog post - John Redhead |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Created blog post and accompanying dashboard to visualise LC+ Hedgerows in an interactive and easy to explore way. Blog co-written with UKCEH comms team. Dashboard received in excess of 250,000 requests (i.e. individual views of data) in weeks following publication |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.rgs.org/about-us/what-is-geography/geovisualisation/mapping-englands-hedgerow-landscape |
| Description | RICS panel discussion "Global AI in Land and resource Management"- Sept 2024 - Tom August |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Two experts and a moderator chatting about the potential of AI for Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | RSPB webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Webinar organised by RSPB on habitat management for conservation biocontrol |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Represented the AgZero+ project on an expert panel on the Westminster Forum event on Land use in England - priorities for food production, biodiversity and climate adaptation, and supporting agriculture 17 September 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Richard Pywell represented the AgZero+ project on an expert panel on the Westminster Forum event on Land use in England - priorities for food production, biodiversity and climate adaptation, and supporting agriculture 17 September 2024. This led to several enquiries about involvement in the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/publication/Land-Use-24 |
| Description | Rootstock |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on contribution of carabids and dung beetles to sustainable cropping systems and beneficial management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://rootstock.ag/ |
| Description | Session at Groundswell regenerative agriculture festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session on carabid beetles explaining importance and opportunities to support them on farmland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Soapbox Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Organising and promoting a science outreach event in a shopping centre in Milton Keynes and supporting the speakers from Rothamsted to develop their ideas and talks for the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Stakeholder Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organised, hosted and presented at meeting of Tamar Catchment Partnership. Stakeholder engagement group to investigate means of future collaboration and outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Stakeholder engagement event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Stakeholder engagement workshop for ~80 attendees representing NGOs, EA, HEIs, community groups to facilitate knowledge exchange, future engagement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://pml.ac.uk/publications/research-impact-spotlight-event-plymouth-sound-a-the-tamar-catchment-... |
| Description | Stand and lecture at British Beekeeping Show 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Shelton displayed an NHMS stand at the British Beekeeping Show 2023 which presented results from 2019 and the workflow used to filter pollen grains from honey. In the afternoon, JS gave a talk titled "Behind the Scenes at NHMS" which detailed this workflow with photos of each stage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.britishbeekeepingshow.com/pages/2023-lectures-and-talks |
| Description | Stand at AHDB Natural Capital event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presenting importance of functional biodiversity to sustainable agriculture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Stand at AIUK introducing attendees to the Automated Monitoring of Insects system - Tom August, Jonas Beuchert, Abhi Mandela Ravivarma |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | We ran a stall at the AIUK event in London. Our stall included a prototype Automated Monitoring of Insects system and a video visualising the species classification workflow used to process our captured image data. We answered questions from attendees to our stalls who were mostly researchers from third sector organisations and members of public working in unrelated fields. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk about NHMS to UK Environmental Observation Framework DNA working group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Shelton gave a talk to the UKEOF DNA working group about the processing pipeline and 2019 results. Many researchers in the audience were interested in the potential of citizen science for eDNA projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk on National Honey Monitoring Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to Dingwall & District Beekeepers Assocciation 17/1/24 'Pollinators and landscapes' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk on National Honey Monitoring Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk on National Honey Monitoring Scheme to West Sussex Beekeepers' Association on the 18/1/2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk on National Honey Monitoring Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to Aberdeen & District Beekeepers Association 27/2/24 'Pollinators and landscapes' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk on National Honey Monitoring Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to Cambridge Beekeepers Association 7/2/24 'Pollinators and landscapes' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk on National Honey Monitoring Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to Nettlebed Farmers Association 8/1/2024 'Pollinators and landscapes' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk on National Honey Monitoring Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to West Sussex Beekeepers' Association 18/1/23 'Pollinators and landscapes' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk on National Honey Monitoring Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to South Chilterns BKA 22/11/22 'Pollinators and landscapes' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk on National Honey Monitoring Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to Inverness-shire Beekeepers Association's 14/3/2023 'Pollinators and landscapes' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk on National honey Monitoring Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | "A talk on the National honey Monitoring Scheme at FESTIVAL DES POLLINISATEURS ET DES ABEILLES DE GROIX (7-9/7/2022)" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://info.pollinis.org/festival-des-pollinisateurs-groix-2022/ |
| Description | Talk on National honey monitoring Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk on National honey monitoring Scheme to Essex Beekeepers' Association Annual Conference (13/11/2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk on national honey monitoring scheme - Jenny Shelton |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Fife Beekeepers Association, Jan 2024, c.50 attendees (Jen Shelton) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on national honey monitoring scheme and pesticides - Ben Woodcock |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on sustainable management of arable systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on national honey monitoring scheme and pesticides - Ben Woodcock |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | University of Reading Seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on national honey monitoring scheme and pesticides - Ben Woodcock |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Aberdeen and District Beekeepers Association. February. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on national honey monitoring scheme and pesticides - Ben Woodcock |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dingwall & District Beekeepers' Association. Jan. C. 70 attendees (Ben Woodcock) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on national honey monitoring scheme and pesticides - Ben Woodcock |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Fife beekeepers talk 2 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on national honey monitoring scheme and pesticides - Ben Woodcock |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Stratford on Avon Beekeepers Association. Aug c. 40 attendees (B. Woodcock) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on national honey monitoring scheme and pesticides - Ben Woodcock |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Monitoring pesticide effect on bees as part of an H4 indicator for DEFRA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on national honey monitoring scheme and pesticides - Ben Woodcock |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Talk on pesticides and bees to HSE CRD |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on national honey monitoring scheme and pesticides - Jenny Shelton |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Laddingford District Beekeepers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on national honey monitoring scheme and pesticides - Jenny Shelton |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Middlesex Beekeeper's Association. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on national honey monitoring scheme and pesticides - Mike Bennett |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | University of Reading seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on national honey monitoring scheme and pesticides - Mike Bennett |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Newbury Beekeepers Association. Jan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on national honey monitoring scheme and pesticides - Mike Bennett |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | University College London Seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk to BASE farmers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk to farmers adopting conservation agriculture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk to Hampshire Beekeeping Association |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Shelton gave a talk titled "Behind the Scenes at NHMS" to Hampshire Beekeeping Association, which was about the processing pipeline for honey samples. Beekeepers were interested in the science behind the scheme and understood the time and money involved in processing each honey sample. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://hampshirebeekeepers.org.uk/national-honey-monitoring-scheme/ |
| Description | Talk to International students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invitited lecture at Nottingham Trent University to international students presenting AgZero+ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk to UK Challenger Society Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation and session chair for ~40 attendees on land management and climate change influence on coastal nutrients |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | The National Honey Monitoring Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk to a regional bee keepers organization on the National honey Monitoring Scheme to the Inverness-shire Beekeepers Association 14/3/2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Thinking about scale - biodiversity monitoring - Tom August |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation at a conference about 'digital dimensions of nature recovery' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://oneplanet.com/digital-dimensions-of-nature-recovery/ |
| Description | Trade-offs and the role of glyphosate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview with chemistry today about the role of glyphosate in UK farming |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | UKCEH stand at the Cereals 2022 farming industry event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The AgZero+ and ASSIST environmental Decisions Support Tools (e-planner, e-surveyor) and the greenhouse gas flux towers were demonstrated to the farming industry and policy makers at the Cereals 2022 event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/what-s-on-at-cereals-2022/ |
| Description | UKCEH-Kew Gardens collaborations day at UKCEH. May 2024 - Grace Skinner |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Gave an informal talk to our Kew visitors at East Hendred farm about the AMI system using the demo AMI. Kew visitors included: Richard Deverell (CEO), Monique Simmonds (Director of Commercial Innovation Unit & Deputy Director of Science Partnerships), Phil Wilkes (Research Leader - Nature Unlocked). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | UKEOF symposium "Farmers, citizen science & environmental monitoring" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker at UKEOF symposium "Farmers, citizen science & environmental monitoring", 13 January 2023. Presented E-Surveyor as case study of digital tools supporting farmer-led citizen science. No direct impacts as yet, but reached a wide audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ukeof.org.uk/resources/citizen-science-resources/farmer-cs-symp |
| Description | Visit to Natural England Moss Side Farm to discuss peatland re-wetting experiments 19 April 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The AgZero+ team attended a workshop at Natural England Moss Side Farm to discuss opportunities for collaborative working and joint experiments on peatland re-wetting and the use of AI-assisted biodiversity monitoring technology developed by AgZero+ (specifically the UKCEH AMI system - https://www.ceh.ac.uk/solutions/equipment/automated-monitoring-insects-trap) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/sites/default/files/2024-09/IUCN%20Poster.pdf |
| Description | Webinar for Edina Digimap - Emily Upcott |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented half of a shared webinar for Edina Digimap on the UKCEH Land Cover plus products (crops, pesticides, fertilisers, hedgerows), primarily for Digimap users (researchers who subscribe to their services) and was mostly advertised by Digimap, but also others interested were also invited, including UKCEH employees and project partners. Clare Rowland presented the other half of the webinar on th UKCEH Land Cover Map products. There were questions afterwards, which largely were around how the data products were created. This is the third time we presented on these products for Digimap. Live attendance in 2025 was 30-40; in 2024 was 120+; in 2021 was around 30. The webinar will be shared online and the link to this shared with all those who registered for the webinar, as before, so reach will be greater if those registered watch it back. UKCEH keeps records of the number of product downloads through Digimap - I don't have these numbers but someone else will. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com |
| Description | Webinar on insect monitoring using automated systems in Tokyo, Japan - Tom August |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave a Webinar on insect monitoring, using automated systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Workshop with Eftec and Strutt & Parker to discuss user requirements for environmental decision support tools |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop with stakeholders Eftec and Strutt & Parker to discuss user requirements for environmental decision support tools. This will inform the design of the AgZero+ environmental decision support tools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Workshop with Wildflower Turf Ltd to discuss sustainable wildflower seed production |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop with Wildflower Turf Ltd to discuss sustainable wildflower seed production and creation of bespoke seed mixes to encourage beneficial insects onto farms |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Workshop with researchers to discuss AMI deployments across Africa - David Roy, Alba Gomez-Segura, Jenna Lawson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop co-organised with the Tropical Biology Assoication in Kenya, bringing together researchers from across Africa to discuss and support AMI deployments in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Madagasgar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Workshop with the AGRII Rhiza team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A workshop was held between AGRII (largest UK agronomy company) and UKCEH to discuss the integration and use of ASSIST and AgZero+ environmental decision support tools into their farmer digital platform (Rhiza Contour). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Workshops with researchers developing Automated Monitoring of Insects approaches - Tom August, David Roy, Alba Gomez-Segura, Jenna Lawson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Engagement in wider network of researchers developing Automated Monitoring of Insects approaches, in Aarhus, Denmark. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | YouTube video titled "Behind the Scenes at NHMS" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A YouTube video, which is a recording of Jennifer Shelton's presentation "Behind the Scenes at NHMS", was uploaded to the UKCEH YouTube channel and sent out to NHMS participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0KzVEFn6y0 |
| Description | beetles workshop The Royal Countryside Fund |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on identifying beneficial arthropods |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | e-Surveyor meeting with JNCC - Richard Pywell, Tom August, Lucy Ridding, Michael Pocock, Abigail Lowe, Simon Ralph |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with JNCC and Defra colleagues including presentations of e-Surveyor developments |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | e-Surveyor workshop with citizen scientists (Martin Down) - Lucy Ridding, Emily Upcott, Nadine Mitschunas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 11 nature conservation volunteers attended a workshop at Martin Down to test the habitat functionality in the e-Surveyor app. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | e-Surveyor workshop with citizen scientists (Pewsey Down) - Lucy Ridding, Emily Upcott, Nadine Mitschunas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Five nature conservation volunteers attended a workshop at Pewsey Down to test the habitat functionality in the e-Surveyor app. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | e-tools workshop for Agrii - John Redhead |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop for ~20 senior agronomists from Agrii on 26th March 2024, training them in the use of e-planner and e-surveyor |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | i Newspaper article on pesticides in the UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Newspaper article in print talking about pesticides and world impact based on Paper Wan, N.-F., Fu, L., Dainese, M., Kiær, L.P., Hu, Y.-Q., Xin, F., Goulson, D., Woodcock, B.A., Vanbergen, A.J., Spurgeon, D.J., Shen, S., Scherber, C., 2025. Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms. Nature Communications 16, 1360. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |